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Story: Coaches and long-distance buses

The mail coach

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The mail coach

This coach, about to leave the township of Dunstan (now Clyde) for Roxburgh in the 1880s, carries both mail and passengers. A government mail contract often ensured the viability of a coach run.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Post & Telegraph Collection

Reference: 1/4-019560; F

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How to cite this page

Jane Tolerton, Coaches and long-distance buses – History of coaches, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21805/the-mail-coach (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.